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LAMB'S BOOK OF LIFE 



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BOSTON, MASS.: 

PUBLISHED BY SAMUEL L. CLARKE 

1895 






Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1894, 

By Samuel L. Clarke, 

In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D. C. 



INTRODUCTORY, 



THE Lamb's Book of Life is written to introduce simply the 
coming of divine truth in every degree of life, and to 
uncover that which has been so long concealed from the world. 
This revelation is meant to interpret and place in its proper 
state the language of God, so as to instruct correctly the 
unlearned in spirit in everything that is really necessary for 
man to know in order to live a godly life. This revelation has 
cut a world-wide channel through the world, wherein it has 
spread its great waters and opened in the immense channel a 
sure and safe passage to life immortal. The writings show and 
prove to the world, among those who have eyes to see and 
understanding to understand, that there is no other power used 
to accomplish the works of the perfect salvation than the pro- 
gressive, destructive, and creative words of God, which exist in 
three immortal, infinite, and all-powerful forms, — Divine Word, 
Spirit, and Truth combined. There is no other power, tact, nor 
science used to fulfil the work declared to take place with the 
members of these truths than the three first elements of life 
which I named, although there are many more things connected 
therewith to complete the irresistible power, the full machinery, 
which constructs the three elements, which will be found in 
these writings. 

This revelation does not mean to assert, nor to convey the 
understanding that the members of the perfect truths will be 
plunged very suddenly into incessant happiness by reading and 
receiving these writings, nor that they will be cast down to 



despair and death because they irrationally refuse to grasp it 
when they first hear of it. But it means to work its own way 
reasonably and graciously, and to find and prepare its own mem- 
bers the true breasts to lodge in, by the purity and straightness 
of its work, which must work gradually and surely wherever it 
finds a lodging-seat. It discourses herein, and in the complete 
book of '' Divine Psychology," that the world has undoubtedly a 
new epoch of divine righteousness, which has caused a great 
breach in the world, and the turmoiling of nations, where the 
purity of the old and the new eras shall combine, and weed out 
all formality and impurity that conflict with the true life. 

The combining of the old and new truths has weeded out the 
terrible reign of sin from those hearts who took hold of the per- 
fection of truth when it first and suddenly appeared in the world ; 
and it shall continue to renounce the dead and useless works per- 
petrated by the so-called children of light,who shall take hold of 
these truths hereafter ; and the same shall lay hands on their 
spirits and nature, so that those who labor for the advancement 
of the perfect right may see and behold the realities there are 
in the era of purity, light, and understanding of all the true 
principles prepared for mankind to inherit. 



THE LAMB'S BOOK OF LIFE. 



PART I. 

[See Circular, showing the power and present mission of these writings. 
See " Divine Psychology," on the fulfilment of prophecies, God's impartial 
judgments against sin in humanity, and the " Book of Seven Seals," opened 
to the world, showing how mankind is to be reclaimed.] 

THIS revelation, which is the late precept of divine truth, is 
sent, a direct message from God, to the world to issue among 
those who are growing very weary, and whose hearts are failing 
them, and who are hopeless because of the long period of time 
that God saw fit to withdraw his face and power from the world, 
and gave the world up to be servants of sin and uncleanness 
according to their desires. Many have suffered severely and 
endured everything which was allowed to come against them 
to try and purge every motive, taste, love, and desire in man. 
All the moral world has suffered to come to the end of the 
terrible reign of sin ; and they must continue to endure while 
waiting for those blessed promises, that long-sought-for glory, 
rest, and perfect satisfaction, and the fulness of the power of 
Christ to be demonstrated to the world, and to attain that 
unchangeable power, unerring" faith, hope, love, and uninter- 
rupted submission that will lay siege to the smallest particles of 
sm and uncleanness, so that one final offering for sin will be 
made once for all. The foundation upon which every one is to 
stand now and henceforth, to be worthy of, and to receive the 
price to purchase the living promises of Almighty God, which 



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are now concealed from the world by the realization of the union 
of the first and second coming of Christ, is for the readers of 
this revelation to hear, believe, and receive the one claim, which 
is the broad basis upon which I stand supported by the unequal 
power of God's wisdom and understanding to write of the per- 
fect and imperfect life, and to issue it among the people, and 
that is this : the blessed Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, which 
is the pure word of God, has appeared the second time into the 
wicked world to reclaim falling and suffering humanity; but he 
does not exist in the world in a visible form of flesh and blood, 
but in a new and refined, pure, doctrinal revelation. Christ is 
not flesh and blood, bone and sinew, as he was when he prefig- 
ured his spiritual body and power at his first coming into the 
world. 

It must be understood — and this is purely godly reasoning^ 
— that everything that has taken place, both small and great, 
since mankind put on the mortal image, which is death and hell, 
was God's concealed methods to work out the fulness of divine 
righteousness, and the establishment of the immortal image, the 
life of Christ. The many material changes which God has 
caused to take place before and between the coming of the 
fleshly and spiritual Christ, after using the flesh to prefigure 
what is contained in the spiritual world, were merely to fulfil 
what was determined against the devil's kingdom, which is set 
up in the spirits and nature of men in its grandeur. Now the 
same cleansing and healing powers are in the spiritual world, 
and are ready for use whenever one feels that he is in need of 
them, and has the price to procure them. The healing, cleans- 
ing, destructive, and creative powers which shall change the 
vile souls of men among those who will hear, believe, and 
receive Christ's coming to reign are in the pure words of God ; 
and those spiritual saints who are sleeping in the material saints 



shall, by receiving the pure word, awake and meet Christ at his 
coming to reign, by the power of his Father's omnipotent wis- 
dom and understanding, over all sin and uncleanness. 

My claim is hereby clearly understood. It is, Christ is now 
in the world among sinners and unclean men the second time ; 
but not as before, lest he build upon the old foundation and fail 
to make improvements, to take away the Cross, the strain, and the 
responsibilities. To them who are seeking him earnestly shall 
he appear, and be seen as he is, in this revelation, in language, 
spirit, and truth, which issued from the Almighty to fulfil and 
realize every promise which he has made unto the just since the 
world began, and to reward the unjust. 

It is not for man to lean to his natural understanding and 
false reasoning to learn the real truths concerning what has 
taken place, for what purpose, what shall be hereafter, and why 
God should allow such things to be. Such questions are vain 
repetitions for the natural man, because God never has and 
never will make his determinations and mysteries fully known 
to the sinful man, whose desires and self-will are his own glory 
and intelligence. God has foreordained to give himself in full 
to the people who have obtained the price to purchase his life ; 
and there is no power to deprive the people of God of receiving 
his life when they reach the appointed time for the blessings to 
shower upon them. And for those who are fashioned with sin- 
ful tendencies, who will not receive the true Gospel of God, 
there is no such thing as escape from the wrath of God, for the 
day of escape is far spent. 

This is to discover and locate the realities of the perfect 
world and the falsities of the imperfect world, and to reveal the 
workings of sin and righteousness in pure and plain language, 
just as the perfect and the imperfect are lettered, but slumber- 
ing, upon the pages of humanity. When this is done, I shall 



have proved, by the writings of the Holy Bible, that Christ, the 
Saviour of men, has already made his second appearing to the 
human world, and is working out men's eternal salvation in a 
concealed way. 

Wherever Christ has appeared unto the human world the 
first time, in hope of the perfect salvation, he and his holy saints 
are slumbering in humanity, in wait for Christ's second appear- 
ing, which must be accomplished within the soul and nature of 
men, to quicken the slumbering substances, to give power to 
humanity to overcome every particle of the imperfect life, so as 
to receive the perfect whole. 

This can, and shall, be done by receiving Christ's second 
coming to reign over his many enemies, which live and reign in 
men's customs, styles, laws, doctrines, wisdom, judgment, and 
understanding. The agreement in humanity between Christ's 
first and second appearing will form and establish the fulness of 
divine power in the soul, even as sin has come to the full in the 
souls of some people, to reject that which is eternal. But sin 
must reign in humanity until each person for himself receives 
the full life of Christ, both spiritually and physically, which 
must involve the teachings of his first and second coming com- 
bined. 

The wisdom and the understanding of the natural world is 
one thing, and it belongs to the world ; but the wisdom and 
understanding of God is entirely different, and conflicts with 
that of men. 

To endure in the world and to do good unto men for the 
praise and glory of men is one thing, and such belongs to the 
kingdom of men ; but to endure and to do good for the kingdom 
of heaven's sake, according to the true calling and purposes of 
God, is entirely different from that of men, and they disagree 
and conflict in their methods of work ; for righteousness in the 



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council of God is wickedness and crime in the sight of men in 
some instances, and righteousness in the council of men is 
wickedness and crime in the sight of God in many cases ; 
although they of the world are allowed to use the name "Jeho- 
vah " the same as the elect, and to use the same language as 
though they were chosen by the power of the Almighty to do 
their unjust work. 

To read the Bible, and to imagine that you are then sum- 
moned to work in the Lord's vineyard is not genuine ; it is 
absolutely a false conception, which has gone into the world 
and has already taken hold upon thousands, and influenced them 
to make themselves ministers and teachers of Christ. 

The Bible is the testimony of divine righteousness in the 
man of God, and the true guide to sustain him in every good 
work in life when the Holy Spirit quickens him to understand 
its teachings. 

The Bible was not ordained and given for disputers, pickers, 
philosophers, and free-thinkers to chew upon, to strive in con- 
versation for rivalry ; but it is a medium of divine and physical 
righteousness, and a guide and teacher for every man who is 
godlily inclined in every vocation of life. And if each person of 
trade and profession dealt justly by his fellow men, the Holy 
Spirit would quicken each person to those parts of the Holy 
Scriptures best suited for his condition, without taking thought. 

The true teachings and understanding of the Bible are not 
brought to the minds of men and made to rule over sin in them 
day by day, because they fail to regard and establish the true 
and honest way of living. And for this cause the power of the 
Word of God, which he has revealed, from heaven for men's 
salvation, is stamped under foot, and crushed out of existence 
simply because men hate the true, the honest, and straight way. 

In order to.be engaged in the service of Almighty God, he 



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must, according to his own purposes and determinations, call you 
away from your own will and desires, and choose you to be an 
instrument of his glory, just as men employ their servants to do 
certain work, and a certain amount of work, for so much salary. 
And no man on earth has entered the callings involved in the 
service of almighty power unless God revealed himself, instruc- 
ted him plainly what he should do in order to live to God's glory, 
and what he should cease from doing in order to please God. 

The idea of studying out and searching for the wisdom of 
God by the theory and philosophy of the world, the wisdom of 
men according to the prevailing custom of men in their science 
of divinity, is a fraud and illusion ; and this is making men more 
and more depraved and opposed to true godliness. Man cannot 
possibly serve God to his glory simply because he can or would 
like to ; neither can he enter the services of God because he 
feels that it is his duty to do something in that line because the 
Bible states that such is required of man. If men take this duty 
upon themselves, they evoke for themselves wrath and curses ; 
and their reward is not of God, neither from God, but of men 
and from men, although they are laboring falsely in the name of 
God, and imitate the chosen seed. 

There are thousands of people who claim falsely to be ser- 
vants of Christ, and have erred and worse than deceived them- 
selves on this very same point, by assuming the names of ser- 
vants of Christ. They have made themselves teachers and 
servants to satisfy their own fleshly lust, which is the world in 
them making errors, by lusting to do in the name of godliness 
what they are not organized to do, just as it lusts in them after 
that which pertains unto the world visibly. And this is the 
scheme of sin to deceive them and lead them into snares of 
wickedness with a godly object in view, as it does with worldly 
objects in view. 



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A person can be covetous and vainglorious in striving to 
attain to certain perfection of godliness according to men's 
philosophy of godly perfection just as truly as he can be covet- 
ous and vainglorious in seeking the wealth of the world. It is 
sin, I care not what course it pursues or what profession of life 
it follows. 

Many strive for wealth, glory, and the honor of men ; but 
there are very few who obtain it to their souls' satisfaction, 
because they are unable to reach all the principal resources that 
swell the current of wealth, fame, and honor. And those who 
do obtain the wealth of the world to their souls' pleasure are the 
kings, queens, and princes of wealth, among whom it is reserved 
and handed down to their heirs. The riches of God, which he 
has foreordained to confer upon the heirs of salvation, are to 
those who are the exact likeness of his image, both in substance 
and spirit. It is not possible for one to receive the inheritance 
of righteousness when he has not the purchase possession. 
Divine righteousness was prepared in the beginning for all 
mankind, and not for animal kind. 

There are millions and millions of people like unto mankind 
apparently, but in reality there are very few genuine human 
beings in comparison with the various animals, reptiles, fowl, 
and fishes which are existing in human forms. Unless people 
are thoroughly tried by the pure laws and doctrines of life, it is 
more than difficult to distinguish the human-statured animals 
from the human race. Refinement, education, politeness, dex- 
terity, and the schemes of business talents do not constitute, 
really, a human being as God preordained him to be in his per- 
fection. Still, time and rigid teachings and strict regard and 
obedience to the principles of the perfect laws and doctrines 
will cause the human-statured animals to progress from the 
animal world, and to be transformed by fire into genuine human 



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beings, under which name they are now going and representing 
falsely. 

Animal principles and appetites of various sorts, which bear 
rule over every mite of humanity, make them everything but 
genuine human beings. Years and years of training of animal 
dispositions have made the animal race more sagacious and pros- 
perous in the world than the real human beings ; because the 
world is their home, and they have no other glory and pleasure 
in life, and no other aim to achieve, than to go as far as the 
world will allow them. 

The actual human beings cannot prosper while they look 
wholly to the glory of the world, as does the animal race, 
because they are warned that they have souls to give over to 
destruction, and souls immortal to gain, wherein satisfaction, 
peace, and pleasure reign, and that the world of vanity is not 
their home and glory. As long as this conscious and rational 
thought is continually rubbing and wearing down the desires, 
loves, and hopes in the world, there is no power of courage nor 
any energy to go forth with work of any worth and be success- 
ful, as the members of the world can do. 

The involuntary doctrines taught by divine nature in the 
rational thoughts of the elect are continually condemning and 
imprecating the polluted glory and honor of the world until the 
King of eternal glory comes in and creates the true glory for all 
useful things. This is the reason why the true elect cannot 
prosper in the business world. They are drifting from place to 
place without success, awaiting the appearing of the heavenly 
glory, which is the primary basis of their prosperity, peace, and 
contentment. Man's final conclusion with the world, and 
exemption from its prevailing sins and curses, depend entirely 
upon his taste and desire to do right, and upon gods in the same 
before man entered into the world. 



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If a man has a ruling desire to live in the world in acquire- 
ment of its glory and success, and never wishes for anything 
different from that which the world contains, it is unwise for the 
man whose life, glory, and success are in the divine world to 
persuade the worldly man to seek the life beyond the world. 
The worldly man can be taught the true way to live in the 
world, which is his life and pleasure ; but never attempt to urge 
upon him the doctrines of the other world. It produces mixtures 
and non-success if true godliness is urged upon a person who 
cannot possibly receive it to accomplish any good. The pure 
life of Christianity should not be taught to persons who have 
not that power of conscience and godly influence working 
within them ; for if they are left at large to act, speak, and per- 
form according to their own feelings as to which world they 
shall turn their attention, time, talent, and skill for life and 
success, their own conscience will compel them to choose the 
life best suited for them to live and enjoy, because the power 
must rule when they have heard and learned the chances which 
they have in either world, and what they are required to be and 
to do in order to have success. That which one is required to 
do to achieve success in striving to obtain earthly glory is a 
fatal curse if he is striving to attain the riches of the other 
world. The striving to obtain earthly glory, honor, riches, and 
blessings ceases as soon as the eternal progress of heavenly 
glory sets in. 

I care not what a man's talent or occupation may be, if he 
has a secret thought working with zeal and hope to reach a 
purer and more perfect knowledge of God, it will reveal itself 
and find its heaven, just as wickedness will search out new plans 
to accomplish its mission by manifesting itself in man. 

Sin needs no persuasion, for it is already destined to perform 
its work manifestly ; so will the righteousness of God work- 



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ing in man develop and find in itself peace and justification 
without persuasion, whatever befalls it or whatever condemna- 
tion is maliciously brought against it. 

The life of God working in man is a secret trust, support, and 
safeguard for the man who lives the life of God, just as much as 
gold, silver, and riches are the secret trust, support, and comfort 
of man in the temporal world, and such as are conformed to the 
glory of the world. And it is impossible to live the pure life of 
God and be conformed to the customs of the world, and at the 
same time prosper in both worlds in your essential aims and 
desires. 

The natural m-an is the substance of the world, and in the 
bowels of the earth ; and he must be taken from the world to 
work out, receive, and live the pure life of God to his own glory 
and honor, just as men choose the different substances of the 
temporal world for their glory and honor, and to use in any way 
that they may see fit. The election of man as heir to eternal 
happiness, the mansions of perfection, depends wholly upon two 
conditions : first, his desire and love for the life of God ; second, 
it depends upon God's predestinations of man's election to the 
throne of eternal life. No man can be chosen, nor made an 
heir to the throne of life unceasing, until he is required of God 
to perform a certain kind and portion of work according to his 
will. A man may be ever so zealous to turn from the glory of 
the world, and to enter into the holy services of almighty power 
to perform some work to his glory before the specified time — 
it will be of no effect in changing the predestinations of God, 
neither will it have effect until the arrival of the appointed 
time. And if such zealot were not ordained to enter into the 
services of God, that worldly and selfish zeal to be God's free- 
man is all in vain ; but if he is the chosen seed according to 
God's glory and honor, that continual zeal is preparing him for 



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the appointed time by making him more and more conformed 
to divine will when the appointed time is fulfilled. 

Yet all are to run and not falter, and wait in faith where it is 
bestowed ; for the election of man to the throne of the right- 
eousness of God is sure, as he has promised it to all who contain 
his substance, receive his Word, and partake of his Spirit as 
pure as he bestows it. There is another great thought of man's 
election to eternal happiness, and his final sentence to misery 
and woe, and, lastly, death, which seems to some, or to many, to 
be unjust of God, — to allow the suffering of humanity to prevail, 
when he is the power that causes man to go into sin, that he may 
learn the craft of sin, and at last know the agony of sin in every 
degree of the mortal life. 

Again, it seems unmerciful on the part of the Almighty to 
allow such brutal suffrages to continue, while at the same time 
he has power to cause them to cease, and to give peace and 
satisfaction to his people, and to make them to know the true 
and unerring way, his will and pleasure, and to avoid the many 
errors that purchase the penalties of sin. But God will not 
cause a thing to cease, whether it produces suffering or death, 
while such is tending directly to the fulfilment of his predes- 
tinations ; therefore, in this case, the power that is all-powerful 
has no power to cause a thing to cease that is drifting on to the 
true end, where the cessation of trouble will stand. 



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PART II. 

THE complete book of *' Divine Psychology " means that there 
is a new, pure, powerful, and more advanced truth in exis- 
tence, which means the return of the original life to man. It 
means to destroy and purge out the impure life, which is death, 
and which, by degrees, stealthily crept into humanity and cor- 
rupted it. It does not mean to destroy any existing good nor 
welfare of man, but it means to cleanse all things that were made 
for man's glory and honor. When I say : To cleanse all things, 
it means to cleanse the motives, aims, desires, and loves of man, 
so that every man of truth will work for the welfare of his fel- 
low creatures, and not for the mere accumulation of wealth. 

This book shows how the author of it discovered and revealed 
the perfect doctrines of life ; and how the members who are 
connected with it conducted themselves, which caused the dis- 
covery of the new world, its laws and doctrines, and also the 
fallacies there are in the old world. And it also shows how the 
works and trials of the author concur with the writings of 
the Holy Bible, the words of which were the great waters for 
man to sail upon, in search of every sin and crime, and to dis- 
cover the new world prepared for the saints of the living God. 
It shows that each marked change which took place while pro- 
ducing the writings contained in this book was deliberately 
ordained by the Holy God for righteous purposes ; and each 
significant change was a fiery fulfilment of the Holy Scriptures. 

The complete book of "Divine Psychology" clears up every 
mystery that heretofore densely overshadowed the mission and 
purity of the perfect truths, and reached the extreme depths of 
sin and iniquity which underlay and overlay the complete whole 



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of perfection in the forthcoming age. This book does not mean 
to exalt nor to honor beyond measure the material body of him 
whom God used as an instrument to perform and outline the 
complete whole of the perfect salvation. It means to give due 
honor and respect to everything that God has created and 
formed for his glory, whether it be man, beast, herbs, fowl, 
wealth, wisdom, style, or anything in existence working to this 
end ; and there is nothing that exists that is not tending to this 
purpose and end in some way. 

Shall God destroy that which he has created and caused to 
perform, when it is tending to promote good ? Or shall he be 
indignant over his own creation, formation, and production ? 

The things that exist unto the destruction of almighty 
power, when the time arrives for them to be brought to naught, 
are destroyed by the power and wrath of God, and according to 
his glory, as much as though they were created and formed to his 
glory. 

The wrath of God against the things fitted unto destruction 
is his method of destroying the agents ruled out of use after he 
has finished his purposes with each kind created unto destruc- 
tion. The almighty power of divine nature, in its purposes, 
created and formed many machineries, weapons, and agents to 
use in the performance of God's work, that it may be carried 
out in perfect order, as man has been empowered and endued 
with wisdom to discover and patent the many agencies to accom- 
plish their work in the temporal world. 

After the more-advanced discoveries come into existence and 
use, they destroy, or lay aside, the old in honor of the new; so 
does the growth of immortality put down the mighty strains and 
unjust servitude, — the old and impure method of serving God, 
as it is called, — and establish a civil, free, and pure way of 
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What advantage is it to the man who disbelieves in and 
opposes the will, to become a servant of God ? There is none. 
But if God ordained a man to carry out his purposes against the 
man's will and sentiments, the man is not to be rewarded, nor 
to become great in the sight of men ; it is solely that God's 
determination in the creation and formation of that man may 
be fulfilled. 

How long will it take a man to become fully conformed to 
the perfect will, — if it is determined that he shall, — if the 
man is opposed to the will of the Almighty ? It depends upon 
what purposes God has to work out of that man's case, who is 
naturally opposed to his will. It may possibly take as long as 
it will take a child to learn the alphabet, and to read and write 
well, when he has no taste for learning. So can the opposing 
man's spiritual progress grow, by gradual degrees. 

How can man ever learn the perfect will of God ? By know- 
ing and feeling what is the perfect will, and knowing, also, what 
he is to do in the different walks of life in order to please 
the Divine Spirit. 

How shall man know the perfect will of God, when it works 
differently with each one who is chosen according to the will of 
the perfect life ? After a man enters the blessed calling of the 
new life, he is to work, seek, and perform each day in harmony 
with his controlling desires, seeking that which he loves, — the 
perfect will of God. 

When God has chosen you to accomplish some work and to 
do his pleasure in all you think, say, or do, he will not instil his 
desires into your heart against his own will and purposes. 
Consequently, there is no way to accomplish anything against 
the determinations of God when he has prepared you to do his 
will and good pleasure. 

He i.s, then, the Creator and Ruler of your every desire and 



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pleasure, by which you are to gain access into his perfect will 
without fear or doubts, while you look to the ruling power of 
the mind and body. For this reason, there are no snares nor 
blessings to step into against the perfect will and pleasure of 
God, for all your steps are ordered according to God's will when 
you put on life eternal. 

What is your idea concerning the present and future life, and 
concerning the different faiths and denominations, in regard to 
their all being the heirs to the same throne and kingdom ? Well, 
what are the ideas of the Bible, and what individual faith and 
denomination now in existence does it wholly support, condemn- 
ing all others ? When this question is answered, and the mys- 
teries that darken all denominations are cleared up, and the true 
denomination is created and brought forward and established, 
then it will be very easy to understand what created the many 
faiths, opinions, and denominations in honor of the present and 
future life, and why they have not heretofore combined in honor 
of the millions and millions of truths which prevail in part 
among them all. 

If all the different faiths and denominations, with their entire 
truths, were brought together and combined according to the 
glory of the Almighty, and all the fallacies purged out, they 
would produce a complete whole,— the fulness of the life of pure 
godliness. 

The Bible is the word of God, — messages directed from 
heaven to falling and rising humanity,^ and before man can 
take the words of God, he must first believe and receive the 
writings of the Bible as true, whether he can interpret its mean- 
ings or not. All the different ideas concerning the present and 
future life, and all the different creeds, were taken from the 
Bible ; and each believer thinks, or pretends to believe, that 
his faith and manner of worship are true, or as near right as they 



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can ever be in this world. He also thinks that all the rest of 
the faiths and opinions are false, and believers in them will not 
be received into heaven, that far-away home, until they deny 
their false faiths and join his. 

Very well, then ; suppose you find a man who is sent from 
God to combine all denominations, faiths, doctrines, and opinions 
by a simple, small, family-like system, and to place each tenet 
in the proper state, where it will acquiesce, and by so doing 
will see the purposes of God in allowing the many faiths and 
denommations to come into existence, to prevail, and condemn 
the root from which they all sprung. 

I say that the ideas of the Bible are my ideas ; and if the 
Bible is false, I am false ; and if the Bible is true, and was 
revealed from heaven to reclaim mankind, I am commissioned 
to do the same, by fulfilling the laws and doctrines of the Bible 
upon every one whom the power of the Almighty draws unto me 
according to his purposes, in honor of the fulness of his life, in 
the dispensation of the perfect doctrines and laws, to rule over 
man in righteousness. I have no ideas of my own, no theory, no 
understanding, no desire, no will. 

The things that are within me, in whatever form or expres- 
sion, are God's ; so, then, the motives and desires there are 
within me are God's, and they will obey his teachings, and walk 
in his wav in all thino^s ; and there are no errors in them, 
because they proceeded from him, and I manifest them as he 
infuses them into my heart. 

I know that man cannot of himself become faultless and 
flawless, even if he sacrifices all that he owns or desires natur- 
ally, and also lays down his own life to become immortal. Of 
his own efforts, man is but mortal, and is no more than the man 
who would be opposed to such. Why so ? Because it is the 
man's own glory and strivings, and not the pleasure of God ; 



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and if such is the pleasure of man, thinking that he will attain a 
certain state of perfection, God will allow him to strive and do 
all he desires to do ; for he will grant the desire of every living 
thing, as far as they have obtained force to carry it out, and 
such things can be used as ensamples and warnings for those 
who would pursue, and for those who would not pursue, the 
false way. 

Man cannot, under any circumstances whatever, serve God 
until he can reason and think from God's being, and desire, 
love, receive, obey, and yield his body to obey God's will, as he 
was commended unto sin in the world. 

Although dissimulation was the righteousness and curse of 
the old law, by which the law came, just so death came by the 
Cross and destroyed the false glory and honor unto God, that 
you may receive the perfect image of his Son, Christ, who is 
the pure and everlasting word of life, and makes you forgetful 
of the duties there are to those who are alive to the Cross 
of Jesus Christ. The Cross came not by the unrighteousness 
of this generation, nor was it destroyed by the righteousness 
of this generation ; but according as it was ordained, so is it in 
the workings of righteousness in all things. 

What code of laws and doctrines has God prepared to bring 
men to perfect repentance and to confer upon them eternal 
salvation ? Are men to go blindly along the paths of salvation 
unaware of what shall be their fate, not knowing what course 
to pursue, or what they are to perform, or how to act in order to 
be pure in the sight of the perfect truths ? 

When you receive the Spirit of the perfect life, you receive 
the pure laws and doctrines, and the perfect will of God, in that 
Spirit which will not lead and teach you in all ways just as it is 
leading another who is partaking of the same life ; because the 
condition and needs of each one who is subject to the will of the 



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Almighty are different, hence the leadings and teachings must 
issue to each one to suit his condition. 

There are no other written methods nor codes of law and 
doctrine for man to learn consciously in everything he does, in 
order to be fashioned to the glory of the immortal life, than that 
there is a certain way to eat, drink, and enjoy life, in order to 
acquire an education, wealth, and the honor of men. Then, if a 
man should feel that he would like to connect himself with the 
immortal doctrines and their methods of teaching and leading, 
and live in honor of the immortal life, what would be the first 
step he would be required to make in order to be successful in 
receiving the higher truths ? What method of conditions have 
you to offer to save men from the sins and crimes of the world ? 
If a man's controlling desire, trust, hope, and affection should 
become absorbed into the life of the perfect truths, he would 
not be refused the full teaching of the pure way to life ; but 
such teachings would be in harmony with his condition, and 
also with the conditions of those with whom he is associated in 
life, so that no acts of injustice should be done to them. And 
in all cases, those with whom he is connected in life shall have 
all necessary advantages to empower them to see the purity and 
straightness of the immortal doctrine's will in doing work of 
this kind, whether they desire to see it, or would not see it 
right after doing all that can be done ; for the wickedness and 
blindness of an opponent shall not compel the holy doctrines to 
deal unjustly, to retaliate, as the world does, in case of oppo- 
sition. 

The matter of leaving off old associates, and the discontinua- 
tion of receiving the established method of teaching the divine 
doctrines in a material sense, would be of no progressive impor- 
tance to the members of the higher and purer understanding of 
God and his will and power to keep safe, and to save, men from 



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the will of destruction. But such doctrines can be listened to, 
and received, with all due awe and reverence, and can be 
received in many things as taught by the old standard ; but the 
immortal race must locate and define the divine spiritual doc- 
trines in a different way from that in which they are taught and 
believed in by the world. So, then, the doctrines of the pre- 
vailing custom of godliness are not contemned nor condemned 
by the holy doctrines ; because each statement, interpretation, 
word, and formality can be placed in its proper place by the 
wise and just. 

If an associate of the immortal race who is of the world 
becomes honestly and truly devoted to any one of the holy seed, 
there shall be no objection to their mingling materially and 
sociably ; for it may be the means of many non-elects becoming- 
elects, by seeing the realities there are in living in harmony 
wdth the commandments and teachings of the perfect doc- 
trines. Having in mind and heart a continual thought of life 
and death, and the suffrages and happiness of man, it gives 
the complete whole of purity and power to wisdom and under- 
standing, to describe and mark plainly and simply the perils and 
suffrages which lie under and over the human understanding of 
the great powers and irresistible forces which are now in the 
world to lead and compel men to seek the pure life of God, 
which is now at hand and nigh unto every man's heart and 
understanding. 

Remember and consider that all of you are not prepared to 
do the same kind of work, nor to pursue the same course ; to 
start at the same time, nor to go in the same direction, even if 
many of you are to meet at the same Beloved City. The heart 
of each one is inspired according to his formation and ability, as 
to the choice of vocation, time, and course to pursue, and what 
he shall gain if he should start. How can one start unless he 



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has a material guide, and how can there be a material guide 
unless he is sent, being chosen by, and according to, the glory 
of almighty power ? 

'* Can a good tree bring forth corrupt fruit, or can a corrupt 
tree bring forth good fruit ? Nay ; for by their fruits ye shall 
know them." You have hereby found and received a material 
guide, an everlasting friend, an instructor of the true knowledge 
of God. And this instructor is guided wholly by the seven 
spirits of almighty power, which are the seven prime doctrinal 
elements of eternal life, and the gaining of the immortal soul, 
which purity, laws, and doctrines man transgressed, thereby 
causing his fall. And you are told by the material guide, the 
free instructor, that the seven spirits are ruling by the words 
spoken by the material guide. 

Then the material is not the real, but the unseen, which is 
the seven self-acting mediums of life, which carry man irresisti- 
bly on from the mortal life to death, and from death to the 
resurrection of immortality, the admittance into life eternal. 
This issue of divine truth outlines the way, marks the journey, 
declares the conditions, and shows the perils there are from life 
to death, and from death to the resurrection of the dead, the 
inheritance of life eternal in the material body. This does not 
make the material body eternal, but it makes the unseen powers 
that rule the quickened flesh eternal and pure in all their works, 
aims, and motives. 

I now place by language the seven doctrines of the human 
soul in every avenue and main street of human thought and 
intelligence ; make the understanding of man consistent with 
that of divine righteousness ; cut inroads into all the desolate 
countries and vast wildernesses, and make frequent visits into 
all the secret chambers of sin and iniquity, so that every part 
of the world that is purged and fully cleansed will rest upon 



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its original and fundamental basis of purity and power in hu- 
manity. 

This will undoubtedly produce the required necessities, form, 
and fashion, and reduce to a system, and conform to holy cus- 
toms of the world, so that spirituality will have a lasting con- 
ductor to convey the true wisdom and understanding to the 
remotest parts of the human world, not allowing the rational 
mind to rise above nor to go beyond the limits of material 
things, simply because the spiritual, influential power fills all 
space of materialism ; for one without the other is not in God, 
nor is it a complete whole. 

The term " psychology," as the title was chosen of God and 
instilled into the writer to serve technically, means to contain 
by nature and spirit the entirety of the perfect doctrines of the 
human soul, which takes in everything that concerns man's 
eternal salvation spiritually and physically. The seven divisions 
that constitute the complete whole of "psychology" are the 
unseen power of Almighty God conferred upon man to use as 
implements of war to fray out of man the pernicious horns of 
the uncivilized world, and give in return the horn of the full 
and perfect salvation. The seven immortal doctrines of "psy- 
chology" are the seven divine spirits, the producers of the 
perfect salvation within the soul of man. 

When the revelation of this age is received by men, — I care 
not who they are, nor what color or talent they have bestowed 
upon them, — the seven doctrinal spirits begin their involuntary 
work within the mind and nature, and fathom the inmost 
thoughts, aims, and intentions, and create understanding as to 
what is required of men in order that they may begin anew, 
in life, to lay a new foundation to build upon. When this is 
done, the seven doctrines give instructions ordinately, day by 
day, in everything you say, act, do, or perform while about 



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your daily task, and also in all things along the general walks 
of life. 

In the meantime, they do not compel a person to make 
changes in his mode of living, morally, until he is thoroughly 
convinced that the natural ways, desires, and aims are injurious 
to the new life ; and also show the injuries, and make plain the 
successes, there are in turning from the old mode of living. 

The fundamental basis while in pursuit of immortality, the 
beginning of the new life, is the holy exegesis, which interprets 
day by day the true meaning of Bible language and its many 
doctrines, which were prepared to suit the different creeds, 
talents, and vocations of life. The spirit of exegesis will bring 
to mind, heart, and understanding the proper Scriptures to suit 
every man's condition, according to the holy purposes of God ; 
which is the agreement between the old and new life pertaining 
to godliness. The spirit of exegesis is the expositor of all the 
Scriptures of the apostolic Bible, just as is needed to harmonize 
with each person's condition and talent. The spirit of exegesis 
is the great ministering power of pure reasoning, which God 
sends into the heart of every one who purely and sincerely con- 
nects himself with the new life, and is guided by the material 
guide according to his own desire ; and this power of reasoning 
causes man to think rightly and purely upon the works and acts 
of God in all things, and keep all other created beings and 
things on a lower plane than the natural man does. This doc- 
trinal spirit prevents man from exalting himself and other 
human beings, substances, and creatures above the Almighty 
God ; it causes all things to arise and move upward and down- 
ward upon the platform where it was made to exist. 

Revelation of the future life is the second ministering spirit 
with which man is blessed, to teach him all the hidden realities 
of the new world, and life both old and new ; so that his future 



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happiness, and his existence after he is dead to the world, will 
not be a mystery, as it was to him before he entered into the 
new life. The doctrinal spirit that expounds the revelation of 
the future life makes known every hidden secret of sin and pu- 
rity, also ; uncovers and makes known every privilege that man 
shall enjoy ; and shows the fulness of human power by the 
agency of almighty power when man inherits the pure life of 
Christ, which was promised and given to the just before man's 
creation. This doctrinal spirit brings man right into the pres- 
ence of the Supreme, Intelligent Being, where he can be seen as 
he is, and as he was while performing all of his past work, which 
was in demonstration of his infinite power. This shows that all 
these many things God performed and wrought were to create 
and establish all things needed for man's perfect salvation at the 
end of the world, which is the end of sin in humanity. 

Resurrection of the dead is the third doctrinal spirit, that 
passes through the bowels of the other doctrines, agrees with 
every doctrine taught by them, and raises from the dead both 
good and evil tendencies to make a way for the judgments to be 
pronounced upon the just and the unjust, so that each kind 
may be fully rewarded according to their works in humanity. 
This doctrinal spirit makes known all hidden secrets pertaining 
to the general resurrection throughout the human world, so that 
no mystery can conceal itself from this all-searching doctrine. 
This doctrine stands independently in its world ; and in the 
meantime flows through the other doctrines, discovers every 
hidden secret, and causes them to manifest themselves in some 
way, so that the light of truth, the spirit of burning, and the re- 
flecting word shall throw light upon uncleanness, and consume 
and make miserable every mite of sin that conceals itself in 
men's motives and desires, so that unity may exist between mo- 
tives, aims, arid desires in every walk of life. 



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Salvation of the wicked is the fourth doctrinal spirit, that 
strives in mental conversation, intelligently and reasonably, to 
convince the wicked desires and intentions that the things which 
they are striving blindly to achieve and enjoy are perishable, and 
cannot find a resting-place anywhere within the limits of the 
body of death. This doctrine has a continual afflux and reflux 
from one part of the body to the other, expounding and explain- 
ing the real truth to those dispositions which are lying sluggishly 
around, and wandering vaguely from place to place, unwilling to 
take part in the fight against sin, nor willing to say a word 
against the tyranny of sin, nor to take part in the fight against 
the right. This doctrine convinces the idle neutrals of the hap- 
piness and privileges which they shall enjoy if they will turn, 
heart and soul, and unite with the true doctrines in war against 
the custom and style of sin, and put dowij the bondage of sin, 
which keeps one part of the mind divided against the other. 
This doctrine stands upon its own base, in its own world, and 
does an evangelical work throughout the entire world in every- 
thing pertaining to spiritual and physical things. 

Annihilation of death and hell is the fifth doctrinal spirit, that 
flows continually through the system of the other doctrines, and 
destroys all dispositions, aims, and desires that have abandoned 
all divine and moral laws and doctrines. This doctrine is the 
utter destruction of the desperate tendencies and desires which 
cannot, under any circumstances, turn from sin and crime and 
unite with the just and live for the true life. This doctrine is 
working with all might and main, from time to time, in every 
part of the spirit and nature, to slay by vengeance the unrepent- 
ant rebels who preside over the mental pit and create all men- 
tal disorders and false reasonings which make a person feel, see, 
and receive the most absurd fallacies, and which cause them to 
reject and treat with contempt the purest and most rational truth. 



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Extermination of morality is the sixth doctrinal spirit, that 
conveys from one part of the world to another those sluggish 
dispositions that are disinclined to strive to promote the interest 
of the holy life. This ministering power removes from the mind 
those mutilated and dead bodies, ruins of cities, animals, and all 
other creatures that manifest themselves in men's terrible in- 
human principles, motives, and desires. This doctrine flows 
continually through all the other doctrines, clears up all rubbish, 
and sweeps away all uncleanness and ruins left by the strange 
acts of the other doctrines, so that the body will not have to 
continue in dead, loathsome, and mutilated thoughts. This doc- 
trine leaves the mind free from obnoxious odors and trains of 
thought which issue from rejected and condemned principles. 
This doctrine prepares the way for the clean and sweet fragrance 
of transhumanity, which can only exist where purity and sincer- 
ity reign ; and if anything aside from this should by chance 
steal into the soul, transhumanity fades away like a rose during 
a warm day, when plucked from its bower. 

Transhumanity is the seventh doctrinal division, a serenely 
ministering spirit, which is free from all wrath, roughness, or 
anything that burdens or tends to unhappiness. It rules and 
exists in the land of rest only, which is prepared for the people 
who have overcome all trials and temptations of that wicked 
one who arises while passing from life to death (which is the 
world), and from death to the resurrection of the dead, the 
inheritance of transhumanity in the material body. This all- 
seeing doctrine raises the whole being above everything that 
tends to hatred, deception, injury, or any small or great ten- 
dencies in man that oppose the welfare of others in any way. 
This doctrine, when fully established in the heart of man, will 
surely and undoubtedly keep out every evil thought, desire, 
aim, and motive, so that nothing but pure civilization and purity 



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can reign in the land of transhumanity, which is the end of the 
terrible judgments and the wrath of God against the sinful 
spirit and nature, and, at last, the end of the world in man, who 
was very envious against Almighty God while performing his 
strange work for the redemption of his elect. 

As it is by the fulness of the pure word of God that Christ 
is to make his appearance to the world, and cause his life to be 
received, honored, and adored above all other things, it is the 
abundance of word that shall bring about and make manifest 
the real life of Christ. And where the abundance of word pre- 
vails, there will the truth also reign ; and the Holy Spirit will 
move over the surface of word and truth to give vent to wisdom 
and understanding, by which the immortal soul is to gain access 
into the perfect rest, which is the domain which the human soul 
has long labored and struggled, in faith, to achieve. 

The human soul is laboring, from time to time, to reach en- 
tity, — a sure and unchangeable habitation, — as surely as men 
seek to obtain their own property in the temporal world. As 
long as the human soul dwells within the limits of the body of 
death, there can be no staid joy, peace, and contentment, because 
it is a wayfarer and a sojourner in some unknown world where 
the struggle for liberty shall cease. 

Well, how is this journey made, and by what source of power 
is man to be carried to reach his long-sought-for home ? Man 
is to sail upon the great waters of divine word, spirit, and truth. 

The Word is the great waters, the Truth is the ship, and the 
Holy Spirit is the propelling power that produces speed and ir- 
resistible motion ; and by receiving the word, spirit, and truth 
in the entirety, just as revealed from heaven, you are thereby 
permitted to enter upon the great waters and begin the journey 
without knowing or seeking to know what time you are to land, 
or what storm shall come against you while making the journey. 



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There is no danger of being lost nor of running into perils 
that you cannot conquer while you remain upon the immense 
waters, for the pilot knows all the perilous places and obstruc- 
tions along the way, and he knows the time and seasons when 
storms are most numerous and violent ; for many a time has he 
piloted the ship into the harbor on the other side of this world. 

Remember that you are natural-born slaves to the command- 
ments of your own sinful nature, the leading customs and styles 
of this world, as much as a child is supposed to be subject to the 
teachings of its parents, whether good or evil teachings. And 
you can no more be the sons of God in reality, while you live to 
the glory and honor of your own nature, which is the sinfuj 
world, than you can take ore and make an axe or a shovel without 
carrying the substance that produces iron through the proper 
process. 

You are enslaved to the sins of this world, and you are also 
the slaves of righteousness in the world, if you are connected 
with any faith in the name of godliness. And your faith and 
works in the world in the name of godliness will profit you no 
more than the sinners' who have never entered the faith, if you 
fail to partake of the doctrines of the second coming of Christ. 
Then there is no more reward to be given to the so-called right- 
eous than to the so-called unrighteous in the world, unless the 
so-called Christians receive the perfect words of God. And if 
those who have lived unrighteously in the sight of men should 
partake of the perfect doctrines, they would be receiving the 
righteousness of the first and second coming of Christ combined, 
and God would confer upon them the perfection and the under- 
standing of both ages, while they would not be slaves to sin nor 
righteousness, but would be the chosen seed of God, accordins: 
to the glory and honor of righteousness ; which seed shall live 
above the cursed law, having the Cross of Christ for their foun- 



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dation, which cannot be removed, and having, also, the duties 
and curses which were under the law for their ramparts and 
door of admittance into eternal rest, peace, and pleasure. 

The heirs of the perfect age shall not look vamly and unrea- 
sonably to the righteousness and recompense which were prom- 
ised to those who have labored in vain, according to their own 
desires and understanding, to enter into eternal happiness by 
living subject to the laws and doctrines of the Cross ; for the 
many things which were hitherto written were the many inroads 
paved out in the sinful world to lead men on to the perfect 
world, that they may reach the plains of felicity, a land where 
darkness and perils have no place. 

The question has often been asked, and it has been duly con- 
sidered by many who have heard of their claim ; but it has 
never been answered satisfactorily in words nor thoughts, be- 
cause God saw fit heretofore to keep it concealed from the un- 
taught world, just as he has kept many things that were not best 
to divulge until the fulness of the times when everything that 
is hidden shall be revealed, and that which is covered shall be 
uncovered. 

Whether things are concealed or known, all things belonging 
to the glorification of God and the salvation of men have worked 
and performed all things just proper for God's determination, 
now and henceforth. Not one jot of his workings has been in 
vain, neither is one tendon of the mortal and immortal soul out 
of its proper place. Just as everything now is, so was it created 
to be, and so will it carry out its work as it was created and 
commissioned to do without very much struggle. 

I must name the complete whole of these truths, revelations, 
and doctrines, so that its name be known far and near ; and this 
will cause the wonder to cease among those who have sought to 
know the full meaning of all of these things. These truths, 



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revelations, and doctrines, whose author and members are living 
under and guided by them, do not come under the name of any 
particular creed, faith, opinion, nor religion ; but they are, 
namely, the chosen seed of the living God, the heirs of the 
highest salvation according to God's glory and honor in all 
things, that they may bring others to the same state. 

The author and members of these doctrines are not antag- 
onistic against any creed or faith that is tending to godliness, 
or that would like to. They are only antagonistic against those 
things that produce and maintain sin. And everything that pro- 
motes the true comfort for all men is revealed and supported to 
reach the people aright. 

The evil craves and desires of sin, which is man's worst en- 
emy, are seated in humanity, and prevail in the spirit of man ; 
and these must be cast out and consumed by being renounced 
upon oath, in order that man may gain what he lost. The question 
is, What is it that man lost, and what is there for him to gain ? 
Man lost the power which he had over sin and uncleanness ; and 
now he must regain dominion, by the supreme power of truth 
and understanding, over every sinful crave and desire, and all 
such things must be exiled from nature and spirit. 

This will make man think, act, judge, and desire differently 
in all things. When this is done, man will cease from being 
angry with and envious against his fellow man, and will cease 
from striving falsely and maliciously against one another for 
competition and excellency. But as long as the prince of this 
world makes laws, conceives doctrines, invents patents and 
styles, according to his glory, for man to strive to obtain, so 
long will sin reign over the true life, wisdom, and the Gospel of 
God. The true Gospel must make its own laws, and declare its 
own doctrines, and stick to its own principles, and invent its 
own customs and styles, and rule in everything. 



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The next thing is to tell where man shall receive the full 
blessings and privileges which are promised to the heirs of the 
perfect salvation. Man lost the power of pure righteousness 
which God gave him over sin and unclean things ; and he must 
be enjoying a material and spiritual existence in the temporal 
world in order to be restored to perfect holiness and happiness, 
as he was when created. Then man's reward and perfect salva- 
tion are to take place in the temporal world materially and 
spiritually ; and without this privilege and blessing the final 
redemption and recompense of man are not finished. For if 
man is utterly deprived of earthly necessities such as are needed 
to make life materially happy, he is not fully restored to per- 
fection; for the material and spiritual prosperity must work 
together in order to realize happiness. 

Man has already, and can leave behind him, the real necessi- 
ties of life, in order to please God and to fulfil his determina- 
tions, and to reach that degree of power where he could give up 
the world for the true life to come into him and rule over the 
world. But such is not yet the perfection and fulness of salva- 
tion, nor can it ever be until man is blessed with both the tem- 
poral and the spiritual necessities of life, and in the meantime 
causes the spiritual to rule over the temporal, and uses it as not 
abusing it in every sense of justice and purity. The world must 
first be shut out, and purged by the true laws and Gospel of God ; 
which will cause the resurrection of saints and sinners, to bring 
them to justice and judgment in answer to the deeds done in the 
bodies of men. 

After all this has taken place, you are then justified and sus- 
tained in looking for a new heaven and a new earth wherein 
dwelleth pure righteousness. But before this comes to pass, 
you see, behold, and realize the world within, which was your 
first heaven, on fire, and realize that the works therein are 



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being destroyed by fire. This is the place where the soul loses 
all hope of entering the rest which remains for the people of 
God. 

After the works and sins of the world are renounced and con- 
sumed, the revealing unto you of a new life, doctrines, and priv 
ileges is the time when hope revives, which causes the soul to 
look diligently for a new heaven (which is a new life and trust) 
and a new earth (which is a cleansed body), where the true 
righteousness of God will dwell forever; where the glory of the 
earthly will be equally as great, in comparison, as that of the 
heavenly. For then everything will be in God's image and like- 
ness ; and God will be in all things, above all things, under all 
things, and will rule over all things according to his glory and 
honor, and men's peace, pleasure, and happiness. 

In speaking or writing of the spiritual world and body, God 
used the same language and terms to describe its many wonders 
as it took to describe the great wonders of the temporal world. 
The soul is a spiritual body, and its substance and building are 
composed of pure and plain language ; and the world in which 
the soul lives and reigns is the same. 

In order to describe the reign of the soul, and the infinitive 
existence of the world in which the immortal soul lives and 
reigns, God saw fit to use the same language and terms of des- 
cription and limitation as he did to describe and limit the happi- 
ness and privileges there are in the temporal world, where godly 
power and purity once reigned. 

Having seen that all of these many things that have long 
been taught, spoken of, and thought upon are unseen, and never 
can be seen as men look and hope for it to be accomplished, 
there has come a time when they shall know the truth of the 
whole matter as pertaining to life and death, peace, joy, and hap- 
piness, the resurrection of the life of God, and the final coming 



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of Christ to reign over all sin and uncleanness in the human 
soul and body. 

This brings about the whole change concerning the abolish- 
ment of death and the establishment of life immortal, the resur- 
rection and the life of the saints who live and are dead within 
the beings and nature of men who are now m existence materi- 
ally on earth. And none of the saints who have passed out of 
their fleshly habitations during the past ages of the world have 
yet entered the perfect rest ; neither have they entered into the 
perfect heaven, where God lives and reigns most gloriously and 
immortally. They have not reached a world and life happier and 
purer than this present world and its members of integrity. They 
are dead, living, and sleeping ; but they are not one whit better 
situated than the so-called Christians of this present world ; and 
they will not enter into the perfect heaven and rest until the 
general resurrection, which must work secretly in every material 
saint, which will undoubtedly bring the once material but now spir- 
itual saints into the general judgments. Then they will progress 
up from the sins and crimes of the finite kingdoms, just as the 
material bodies progress in thought, knowledge, and deeds with 
which they live and reign. There are some who are higher than 
others, because of their faith and works in the sinful kingdoms ; 
and there are some who will progress much faster than others, 
because their faith, works, and tendencies differ in quality and 
value, which makes the difference in progress. 

The second coming of Christ means the second coming of 
the supreme divine laws and doctrines to reign eternally over 
sin, death, and hell in every one who receives Christ as he is. 
The resurrection of the dead and the general judgments against 
the wicked mean to raise from the dead the truths, laws, doc- 
trines, and true principles which have fallen asleep in humanity, 
and which are the saints coming into judgment to receive their 



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recompense, so as to enter into the perfect rest, which is their 
eternal home. 

With all my might and main, I have used the best and purest 
words of God to show and prove to the world two great ques- 
tions, which are life and death, and to show how death and life 
must come to all. But I fear that the habitual understanding 
of these things, and the inherited superstition of life and death 
will be too strong for some to understand the true way and en- 
ter into life. For this reason I am compelled to dwell upon the 
most important question, so as to remove the greatest obstruc- 
tion, the concealed stumbling-stone. 

By the Cross, all the so-called Christians have been crucified 
and deprived of the real life and knowledge of God, even as the 
material Cross slew the figurative Jesus Christ, and deprived 
him of a material entity. Why ? Because the material enemies 
who invented the material Cross were too strong for him in that 
day, and were desperately opposed to a life so pure as his ; and 
for this reason they had power to slay him, that his life should 
not reign over them to change their sinful laws and customs, 
which were deeply rooted in their nature, and occupied all space 
in spirit. 

By the spiritual cross and enemies the heirs of Christ are 
overpowered and killed all the day long. And the same sinful 
powers that fought against the figurative Jesus Christ in days 
of old are embodied to-day in material bodies, in rejecting and 
unbelievmg tendencies ; and these are crucifying Christ by re- 
jecting his word, truth, and spirit, which is now his real being. 
Why is this evil allowed to prevail ? Because this is the method 
to try the good, and destroy the evil love, honor, and affections 
which men have for the natural world and its belongings. 

After man is dead from the sting of the Cross, its continual 
presence cannot bring misery and woe, as it did when man was 



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alive to the dread of the Cross. You see, and understand, that 
the Cross is the annihilator of the mortal man, whose pleasure 
and hope are centered in the world, so that he cannot do the 
things he would if he could break the sweet influence of the 
world. Therefore the Cross must continue until every tender 
tie is destroyed, and all feelings of hope and trust in this world 
are passed away. 

When you reach this degree of power, which seems to be al- 
together weakness, you are then empowered and supplied with 
the spirit of confidence in God's word to hope beyond the nat- 
ural world, using the continual presence of the Cross for your 
sure trust, foundation, and rock of defence, whereby you have 
the assurance of that everlasting hope of eternal life and perfect 
dominion over the enemies of this world who bring the Cross 
upon you, while the powers that are evil and working with you 
are reared up and slain. The things within you that are evil, 
when they are slain, leaving you with a broken and hopeless 
spirit, are not to your hurt, but to your final triumph over the 
brutal powers that bring the Cross. 

When all powers that are subject to the penalties of the 
Cross are slain, the Cross is no more a cross, nor a place of 
offence, but your glory, praise, rest, peace, comfort, and recon- 
ciliation with God, who redeemed you to himself, a praise and 
endless glory. Then without the Cross there could be no death 
nor life after death ; for you are told that death must come by 
the Cross, and life by death ; and the works of the perfect sal- 
vation issue from life, which comes after death. Well, then, 
shall they seek the Cross, or make one for themselves and 
fellow creatures, that death may come speedily.-^ Oh no; for 
God never ordained that this should be. 

The Cross, in many instances, comes through those whom 
you trust as friends ; and again, from those looked upon as ene- 



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mies ; and again, you make your own cross, sometimes wilfully ; 
and again, it is brought about by the voluntary powers, the 
demands of your own selfish desires and imaginations, which 
creep secretly into your mind and create things that have no 
weight nor foundation ; which will bear rule over true reasoning 
and common sense as long as the false is received and the true 
understanding is contemned. 

Again, the Cross comes to you from things and from a source 
with which you never expected to be crossed, and from things 
that are entirely unreasonable, and from things that you were 
naturally disinclined to do ; and such things you are liable to be 
accused of doing, which is fully strong enough to destroy your 
will, way, and desires, until you are dead universally. 

When I say universally, it applies to your selfish love, 
hope, and desires, which must be dead from everything and 
every person on earth ; and you then have no hope but life 
eternal, and that is void until God confers upon you his spirit of 
hope, and then it is not you that hope, love, and desire, but the 
hope of God manifested in you. Then God will walk in you, 
teach in you, talk in you, love in you, desire in you, and take 
pleasure in you to do his will ; while you cannot possibly have 
a desire nor anything pertaining to it of yourself. 

God's Spirit will lead his temple in all things to do his per- 
fect will in all ways of peace, safety, prosperity, and happi- 
ness, where no evil can befall you in anything that you shall see 
fit to go into, or to assign your heart and hands to do. For the 
wicked are dead, and are as the dust under your feet, which you 
tread down thoughtlessly, and are powerless over you. Here 
you have entered into an endless day, an unchangeable peace, 
and an untarnishable purity, where the river of the water of life 
ebbs continually to keep pure and alive the tree of life, that it 
may yield its life-giving fruits to give life to those who are dead 



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to life, having no part in life eternal further than mercy seeth 
fit to measure and bestow upon them according to their sincer- 
ity, pleasure, and devotion to the perfect truths. 

If there should be any who are unable to partake of life as 
freely as they would, because of the powerful opponents of 
nature, and cannot possibly advance in the growth of power and 
wisdom as fast as others, it is unwise to reproach them, or to 
bring a railing accusation against them ; for it is wiser and purer 
to bear with them — peradventure they might be made able to 
withstand the evil powers, and unite with their advanced fellow 
creatures. 

There are others who may have started the journey from the 
natural life to death, to enter into life eternal, and after begin- 
ning the journey find themselves unprepared, and are unable to 
stem the powers of their natural creation and condition ; and in 
the meantime they find it best and wisest to revolt from living 
to the glory and honor of life immortal, and live within the 
bounds of their formation and construction, bordering on the 
laws and doctrines of morality as near as their tendencies will 
allow and grant life and prosperity. 

I write these words and leave them as a sign for neutrals to 
judge and decide upon which life is best and most prosperously 
suited for them to live, wherefrom they can obtain the most 
peace and satisfaction. 

All things pertaining to the natural world and the resur- 
rection of life immortal should be performed rationally in all 
things, — by doing those things that are most expedient for 
peace with men and reconciliation with God ; by placing your- 
self in that position where both God and man will be best 
pleased with your talent and works. It is not always wise and 
just to do or assert things which you know will create strife or 
enemies, even though your motives are solely to do good, 



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since there are many ways to avoid such, by waiting and 
enduring until your opponent is taken out of the way. In other 
cases, it is wise to urge a matter, even though strife should 
follow, where the welfare of some special good is to be sacrificed 
by waiting. 

To make the matter short, I would add : in all things, work 
to support and preserve the right, I care not whether it brings 
strife, death, peace, or division. When you stand for the right, 
stand wholly so, for there is always victory and safety where the 
right prevails. Here is the evil, and here is the right ; well, the 
right is wholly right, and the wrong is wholly wrong. This 
is very true, but in many cases the right can step across the 
bounds of right and enter upon the premises of wrong, thus 
making a breach of trespass. 

The right has crossed the boundary of extremity in opposi- 
tion of the wrong ; and, right here, right and justice stand in 
defence of the wrong, and mingle with the wrong to deal with 
equity. That which is purely right must follow up the princi- 
ples and perfection of right, if it crosses over and stands m 
defence of the basest sin and crime, where justice and discretion 
have not been done. 

There are many things you can do that would be strictly 
moral to the worldly man, but would be defiant to the true 
teachings of godliness. What would be defiant to one godly 
person's progress might not be defiant to another, because what 
would retard the spiritual progress of one person would not 
affect another in the least ; and what would be obnoxious to 
a person at one time would be productive of life at another, after 
he has passed through the scourge and is permitted to take in 
the comforts of life universally. 

There is no sin nor uncleanness in anything that God created 
for the good of man, except at certain times, when he is told to 



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deny them for a purer and more lasting good. Then if man 
should obey willingly, in doing the things which God will have 
him to do at the proper time, there is no such thing as God's 
withholding any good from him when he seeth that he is 
worthy of it, and stands in need of it, and that the return of 
these things to man will be for his betterment according to 
God's glory. When you endtire trials willingly, your reward 
comes speedily ; but if you oppose the will wilfully, with mur- 
muring and strife, you turn away and reject your own reward, 
and shut the door of mercy and victory against you. 

The most striking and essential interest of man is rational 
godliness, leaving out all superstition of future punishment 
and happiness ; because it is universally known that the prevail- 
ing ideas, opinions, and fearful superstitions concerning future 
punishment and happiness are preposterous in every degree of 
common sense. And even if such things could ever be as they 
are hideously described by false teachers and preachers, is it 
possible for the fearful superstition to exempt men from wrath 
and punishment, and assure them safety or grant them the priv- 
ilege of entering into life eternal without having any knowledge 
of it, nor of how it is to come ? 

All the many things which men proclaim, bearing on future 
punishment and happiness, are to be fulfilled in many, but not 
as men conceive it as a rule ; for they will never see as they 
look, nor as they expect, nor as they hear, neither will these 
things take place as they have defined them. Still, they will 
come to pass to make man just what he should be in honor of 
the perfect life. 

The whole change of man, entering into the perfect life, and 
being doomed into misery and woe, is to take place within the 
soul and material body while the body exists upon the earth. 
The change, which is death, — to leave the world, to enter into 



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life eternal, and yet to exist in the world materially, — is to take 
place within the soul. 

Leaving the world behind, as a sacrifice, is sure death to the 
mortal being, whose hope, trust, and pleasure are grafted in the 
sinful world ; and death is the only power to force the mor- 
tal to desert the world, which it has loved and adored since man- 
kind began to multiply the improvements upon the earth. It 
places the immortal soul in a world of irresistible power, where 
the mortal soul must break its mighty hold from the world, and 
be cast down to darkness and death, to be consumed by suffer- 
ing under the just laws and doctrines of the immortal soul, 
which has struggled so long to obtain the ever-ruling sceptre, to 
keep away from the tree of life, and to slay the fatness and 
ravin of sin. Well, could the mortal being have done differently 
to shun the punishment now due to him as a just recompense ? 

I shall not enter into suppositions ; I shall dwell upon the 
things that have been, those which now are, and those which 
shall be hereafter. If things had been different from what they 
are to-day, I would have dwelt upon the main situation, even as 
I am now dwelling upon the present conditions of things. The 
world has a breach which is incurable by the members of the 
world ; and for this reason I must devote my time and under- 
standing to the condition of things which are thickly covered 
and well hidden from the view of men. If a man has committed 
a terrible crime, it is folly to argue upon what would be the out- 
come had it not taken place : the case is to try him for crime, 
and punish him for crime. 

The world, which is the people at large as they exist, has a 
rupture which the people cannot bind up nor heal ; because the 
corruption that exists in the world has come to the fulness, so 
that peace can no longer be preserved until there is a scourge, 
and each person has his just due, whether it is success or failure. 



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The wrongs enacted against the rights of the just in the world 
have become so very obnoxious that the right shall no longer 
defend nor sympathize with wrong-doers, who have caused all the 
ruptures in the world. There can be no binding up of the 
breach, for the world must see what the world contains, so that 
the right will stand only for the right, and overthrow the tyr- 
anny of sin. Sin has reigned throughout all ages of the world, 
and the time and season have come for the right to reign over 
wrong-doers and bring them to judgment and justice ; therefore, 
sin is wrathful, and it is being dethroned, and cast down to 
humility, misery, and death, to suffer for its detestable works 
against the right. 

The world has reached that platform where natural brother- 
hood can no longer combine successfully, nor can love have a 
resting-place in each other's breast ; because the days of natural 
brotherhood are far spent, and the immortal brotherhood must 
come in and put an end to the false. This puts a higher duty 
and responsibility upon every man to accept another thought 
of life which is higher and deeper than the present ruling 
thoughts, which only irritate and throw the world into a worse 
chaos and the turmoiling of nations. 

How is man to break away and free himself from the rupture 
of the world, and enter into the world of new thoughts and 
genius, since all men are associated with the world to some 
extent, and one man's failure affects another, and they are all 
linked in talent, trade, and profession, that one may rightly 
support the other, and save each man his fellow creature ? 

The physical world and its laws and doctrines are the temple 
for the spiritual to dwell in, in peace and safety. The true 
spiritual shall rule over the temporal, in order to dwell in the 
temporal as happily as it is enjoying freedom in the spiritual ; 
while the true spiritual and temporal shall undoubtedly over- 



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power the falsities which are desperately opposing the spiritual 
and physical laws and doctrines, and bring the true spiritual and 
temporal together, so that one will rightly support the other, 
and keep out the stringent and unjust laws and doctrines. In 
order to bring this about, there is no way to avoid a terrible 
breach, which, after a long struggle, is compelled to bring in 
everlasting peace, justice, and happiness. Then sufferings and 
a mighty rupture are the only alternatives through which true 
brotherly love and unceasing unity are to come, so that the 
false and the pure no longer mingle. 

I now state, in answer to the question concerning how man 
is to free himself from the disrupture of the sinful world, and 
from being subject to the turmoiling of nations, that if peace, 
justice, discretion, and conscientiousness are hovering about 
your breast, and your essential aims and desires are to make 
peace and give each man his due, and yet, in spite of all this, 
you find that your works are contemned and utterly rejected by 
the corrupt members of the world ; if you have done all that can 
be done, and made all attempts to bring the members of the 
world under the government of peace and justice, yet find your 
works of no avail, you are justified, qualified, and blessed forever 
in deserting them entirely, and living the life which you know to 
be just, not allowing yourself to mingle with their modes of 
living and teaching any further than it agrees with your knowl- 
edge of right. 

You can live in peace, materially, right among those who are 
false swearers, contentious, and subject to lying, tattling, and 
disputing, and yet take no part in their corruption. This is done 
that the power of the Almighty may speedily bring them to jus- 
tice and repentance, to suffer for the pleasure which they have 
taken against the righteousness of God. 

You are a material being, and you live in a material world. 



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and the material necessities of life to sustain your body materi- 
ally must come from the world, through the members of the 
world, whether they are supporters of the right or creators of 
evil. You are not supposed, nor are you required, to live a 
hermit's life materially, .by living in utter seclusion from the 
world ; but you can seclude yourself from those wrongs and 
injustices practised by the members who are grafted in the 
world and have no other thoughts, aims, nor desires, working 
within the range of common sense, to rise above the character- 
istics and the understanding of the world. 

Though you can move, perform, work, and deal with and 
among the members of the world, still there are a few things 
which you and they cannot have brotherly mutuality in ; and 
you who are of the righteousness and wisdom of the eternal 
world have a perfect right to stand steadfast in your profession, 
as boldly as does the world in its trust and profession. They 
trust, hope, and enjoy the life of the world, and they are not 
ashamed to proclaim it, and to disregard and contemn the right- 
eousness of God as he has made it manifest in the chosen seed, 
according to his glory. So you who are of the household of the 
royal family of Christ, in honor of his first and second coming 
to reign over and destroy the works of sin in all who receive 
him, have as much boldness and authority, mingled with inde- 
pendence, to stand firm in your trust, hope, and life in the same 
— as much as the members of the world are commissioned by 
sin to stand dexterously in support of their faith. 

If the righteousness of God, which is life eternal and domin- 
ion over all wrongs, is the seat of your life, the immovable foun- 
dation upon which you stand, the antagonism of the world is 
mere trash to you. But if you stand in awe of the members of 
the world simply because you fear their power, which you feel 
above you, take this as a sure sign that you are one of the sub- 



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jects of the world, and are opposing, deceitfully, your own life ; 
and know that the very same works and principles of the world 
are slumbering within you, awaiting an opportunity to mingle 
with their kind, where they can enjoy the realities of life. 
Wrath and curses, disappointment of aims and desires, will 
dwell with that person if he is mingling with the just, until he 
is allowed the privilege of mingling with his kind. 

If a person is pursuing a course in opposition to his control- 
ling pleasure, understanding, and desire, he may abide for years 
under the shadow of the perfect truths, but the time will come 
when he will be compelled to succumb to the life which he is 
best suited to live ; or he will make it known in some way that 
he is not striving to obtain the things which he desires most of 
all. Above all things, in this thought, seek and strive to obtain 
those things in which you take most pleasure, and to which you 
can give your time and talent, to serve easily, faithfully, and 
pleasurably, as long as they are things in the moral world. If 
you desire and can take pleasure in wealth, seek it earnestly ; if 
an husband or wife, seek such earnestly ; if an education, fame, 
pleasure, or splendor, seek it earnestly ; and if your desire, 
taste, and pleasure are centered in pure godliness, as pure as that 
of which I write, seek it earnestly, and do not allow anything else 
to take first rank in your heart. Choose those good things, or 
those tending to good, that you know are first in your thoughts 
and pleasure, when it dwells within the sphere of civilization ; 
for this is the thing that God prefers you to do; and you will 
prosper at it if you are loyal to all the true principles that sup- 
port it and make it a talent, trade, or pleasure. 

The time has arrived to brood over the laws of true reason- 
ing, to show the origin of false reasoning, to dwell upon the 
principal resources of perfect and unceasing success, which 
must pass through the loins of true thinking powers to obtain 



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the true wisdom, and to depart from all baneful evils which come 
through the bowels of false reasoning, — the decision given upon 
matters of a hurtful nature. 

If a thing is of a pernicious character, and cannot be other- 
wise, it is the power of true reasoning — which must produce 
truth, and which is understanding — to depart from it. If a 
person or thing is pure and true in the acclamation of its 
authenticity, it is the power of false reasoning that changes or 
establishes the opinion of a person to reject and turn from it. It 
is the mere words of true reasoning that bring the spirit and its 
joyful truths to the soul of the man who believes in every true 
way and principle of life. And it is the absurdity of false rea- 
soning that brings the spirit of grief, heaviness, and, lastly, firm 
unbelief to the soul, which appears in the form of the true 
words of God, and which issues from the bottomless pit, the 
prince of revenge and desperation. 

In order to deceive you, the wise and lettered prince of sin 
uses the most practical schemes to get into false reasoning, by 
bringing to your minds the words of God. After you have 
received the words and trusted in such as proceeding from the 
true source, you are offered the false, which you are liable to 
receive without carefully examining it ; and in a short time you 
could not receive nor believe the truth if you desired to. The 
living and rational words of God, in their tenor of wisdom and 
understandmg, are given as the only way in which Christ is to 
be received into the soul ; and if the words of truth are rejected, 
it is because the words of sin are believed and received into the 
heart according to your own inferior understanding of right and 
wrong. When you receive the false words, you receive false 
reasoning ; and when you receive false reasoning, you receive 
the Devil's spirit ; and when you reject the true for the false, 
you cannot of yourself cast it out and receive the true spirit at 



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your own wishes. Then you must wait for the return of the 
Holy Spirit to cast out your enemy, who is too strong for you ; 
and then you may suffer, while waiting, more than you ever 
expected, after contemning the true word and spirit wilfully. 

If all that promotes happiness and prosperity must come 
through true reasoning, hearing, understanding, and receiving 
the words of truth, then the words of truth are of more value 
than they have ever been prized in the mind, and they should 
be looked at, and esteemed in the heart as highly as they are 
worthy and important ; because the pure word of God is the 
only source of power prepared to make man immortal in thought 
and principle, is the mediator between God and man, and, lastly, 
is God himself, who dwells in different forms, and has many 
divisions flowing from his Omnipresent Being. 

All crime and uncleanness, which dug the burning metal pit, 
the terrible disorders of the mind, proceeded from the false 
word in the likeness of true reasoning and understanding of 
things, — the judging of right and wrong. The false words that 
bring mighty false reasoning should be more desperately and 
powerfully opposed when they begin their spurious work in the 
soul. 

How do the false and the true reasoning begin their work in 
the mind ? There was a time when you knew nothing of these 
truths and claims, while you had no thought whatever concern- 
ing them. Until you heard, you could think nothing ; and 
when you heard, the sound came to you in the form of words. 

What set you to thinking after this had taken place ? You 
heard something that you did not understand, and this produced 
a wonderment in your mind, because you never heard of any- 
thing like it before. 

"The idea of a man claiming to do the work that you claim 
can be done is preposterous," you say. You may say, then, that 



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you don't believe it. He who allows himself to go so far as to 
say even so much as I have stated above has accepted a regi- 
ment of false reasoners, — the council of the Devil's kingdoms, — 
which bring to pass the words of the Lord, saying : '' But 
these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, 
speak evil of the things that they understand not ; and shall 
utterly perish in their own corruption." 

Suppose you had said, when you entered into a wonderment 
after hearing the strange report : '' I am a believer in the works 
of God in whatever form he may appear ; and, knowing not in 
what way he shall appear to reveal and give himself to mankind 
in the perfect degree of his life, I shall not condemn nor receive 
until I appeal to God for understanding of this strange report." 

After you have received instruction that it proceeds from 
God for the welfare of mankind when the world reaches that 
plain of purity where it can receive the true doctrine, love it, 
adore and enjoy it above all things, you next find out, surely, 
whether or not it is what you need ; and if you have no further 
knowledge in honor of it imparted to you, to lead you nearer to 
receive it, do not partake of it of yourself ; for you are to con- 
tinue as you were before hearing of it, and to wait your chance 
a future day, that you may be made ready to partake of its 
truths. 

If you never have a controlling desire leading you to take 
hold of its truths and manner of living, change not from what 
you first sought to know, and were duly informed, — that these 
writings came from God. And if you are not a believer in the 
workings of godliness, allow not yourself to discourse upon nor 
to judge matters of that nature ; for it will never bless, help, 
nor elevate any one to speak evil of the righteousness of God, 
nor to judge what he does not understand regarding the truth. 

When you pursue the true course, which I have briefly out- 



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lined in honor of the truth, rest assured that you are in the 
swiftest current of godly reasoning ; and if you pursue any 
other course to obtain the righteousness of Christ, understand 
and know that you are in the channel of false reasoning. 

If you are not a subject for the service of divine truth, and 
you can never understand anything concerning its method of 
work, it will be of no loss to you ; for God, through Christ, 
knew your condition, and saw fit to leave you afar off, and kept 
the understanding of these things from your reach, which was 
for your present and future good. If you had taken hold of the 
divine doctrines, and were unable to stem the trials which would 
arise above your strength by being subject to its teachings, 
your condition, because you had taken hold of what you could 
not receive in full, would be far worse than it would have been 
had you never undertaken the journey. 

When a new good is evil spoken of, it becomes prevalent, 
because people do not fully understand its motive and purposes, 
and are not wise enough to pursue an honorable course regard- 
ing it ; hence they exercise their own opinion, to pacify their 
own curiosity. Those who are weak in sentiments will gasp 
and fight desperately in defence of the prevailing opinion, and 
will not accept any opinion of their own, though, in the outset, 
they had a good and true opinion of it, until they heard the 
opinion of some one or more whom they looked upon as being 
their superiors in judging any matter. 

If you are a man or woman, and not legally subject to any 
one's power and opinion, you are supported and justified, in the 
sight of Christ, in being your own judge according to Christ's 
inspiration working within you, which supplies you with the sin- 
cere thought as to what manner of words you shall believe, or 
what manner you shall disbelieve. If there was a perfect estab- 
lished doctrine anywhere on earth, this would not have to be so. 



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There is none ; and for this reason, you and all others are wait- 
ing for the coming of the perfect truths, the dawning of the 
eternal day, to overrule the darkness and inspire your hearts 
with the perfect knowledge, the understanding of Christ as he 
lives and reigns with God in the highest heaven — so far above 
you foolish creatures, who feel yourselves so very important in 
his sight. So, if you have heard or read of these truths, it will 
be wise on your part to wait patiently before you receive or 
reject ; for in the end it will be to your advantage, and also 
where you are situated now, without hope or desire to believe 
or understand. You did not create yourself, neither will you 
change yourself ; but you can be a reasonable thinking man 
even where you are. 

Evil speakers, men who are prejudiced in any respect, false 
reasoners, and haters of the right shall have their part with 
those who regard not the truth in any sense, even though they 
knew that it was the truth. I write not for those who would 
not accept the right even if they had an opportunity to receive 
the true doctrines of life ; but in support of those who would, if 
they knew the true way, and had some one to be true to them 
in helping them to rise above the unjust, who keep them sub- 
ject to their wicked devices simply because their natural require- 
ments of life come through their antagonists. It is so fixed and 
decreed that the just shall hereafter live in support of the just, 
irrespective of being dependent on the unjust, that they may 
not live as they have been allowed to through the past ages of 
the world. You know very well that if you are subject to your 
enemies for the sustenances of life, you are compelled to 
swerve from the right in many cases, in order to have your tem- 
poral needs supplied ; but if you are independent in every sense, 
you are all-powerful in the human world, and will prevail in 
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I have seen and beheld Satan in the finite world in every 
form, degree, and claim in which men exist in the world — not 
only in imitation of the so-called realities of truth, righteousness, 
and justice, but as real as the purity of the world ever was or 
now is ; and I find that the whole machinery is intermingling 
with sin and vice — the schemes of the Devil — in religion, wis- 
dom, refinement, learning, wealth, love, honor, sacrifices, and 
everything that pretends to be incorruptible and for the better- 
ment of mankind, that man, by living righteously, may glorify 
his God, who decreed man's formation and production. 

I do not say that many do not strive, in every profession of 
good existing, to obtain immortality in their works, in honor of 
the true life ; but they have failed to attain that state of purity 
and power. You are the heirs of immortality by faith in the 
life of Christ ; and you can only be made heirs in reality, by 
receiving the full Gospel of Christ, — not according to your own 
zeal and knowledge, but according to chances, the blessed invi- 
tations which God, through Christ, shall place in your hand and 
heart. And this chance, when placed within your reach, is not 
to be used selfishly, but with all self-denying desires and works, 
looking wholly to the pleasure of Christ, and his knowledge and 
understanding, and to the interests of your fellow creatures, 
who are involved in the same blessed calling. 

If you live, act, and work to this end of purity, God will, 
through Christ, raise up friends to care for you ; and your needs 
will be supplied without your taking thought thereof. Where 
there is so much thought of self, and how self is to be remuner- 
ated, there is no good done for your fellow creatures. He who 
worketh for mere self worketh in vain, unto destruction ; and 
he who worketh for his fellow creatures findeth treasures of 
reward and never-ceasing friends. Above all things in this 
degree of knowledge, keep your works and motives out of 



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the baneful current of self, and you will be compelled to 
prosper. 

The very next important discourse, and the termination of this 
issue of ''The Lamb's Book of Life " in support of the manifest 
power of the holy truths, is to show that the customary learn- 
ing of men in the world has not yet outwitted the craft of the 
lawless ; which craft did not come to them through the custom- 
ary system of learning, but by nature's own inventions, through 
natural science, and through schemes of deviltry. This craft is 
improving and perfecting its art and wisdom every moment. 

My immovable theme is : if the wicked, with their mean and 
brutal devices, which they keep concealed among their kind, 
can succeed and prosper for a time, then why can not the unre- 
vealed and unsystematical righteousness of God — which is con- 
cealed and working in the chosen seed, and which is given to 
redeem mankind — be prudent enough in the perfect right to 
outwit the normally educated of the sinful world, and perform 
many good things among its kind in secret, and among men of 
the world, for the final redemption of those who believe in pre- 
senting their bodies an eternal and acceptable sacrifice unto God, 
to use in all things to his rational glory and honor, according to 
his finished purposes ? Thus the final redemption of all man- 
kind who believe firmly in pure righteousness and equity may 
be realized and enjoyed, instead of being proclaimed falsely, in 
wisdom of words which come from men of vain conceit, who 
take pleasure in their own display, in fancy idolatry, that they 
may obtain the highest praise of men, which confers upon them 
a rich reward for their faithful efforts. 

You who are the chosen seed cannot strive solely for men's 
admiration and commendation, lest you lose track of the honor 
and praise of him who inspired you with wisdom and power, to 
gain to you a glory and praise. Glory and praise are what every 



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man of right, who is faithful to his calling and true to the prin- 
ciples which erect and uphold the office which he holds, should 
have. But in the life and calling of the holy seed, the entire 
glory is given to God involuntarily, and he confers the same upon 
his faithful children, who seek not their own glory, but the 
glory of him who conformed them, by his own creation, to his 
honor, that they may reign in his life by his power over the 
many wrongs of this world, and rise above those charms which 
take hold upon the children of darkness, who are. reserved for 
this purpose, — that the workers of good may see and know the 
reward of the unjust. 

In ages to come the world will pass out of the stages of sin 
and crime, and enter into the perfect day, where the perfection 
of the right shall keep clean and pure all men whose desires and 
aims are to do good and to make others to know every sinew of 
sin and every tendon of right. This can only and shall only be 
done by each person's keeping the blessed secrets of the perfect 
good concealed from the antagonists of the right, and by not 
allowing them to pry into his life and mode of living ; this is 
the only successful way to life, and no other way will ever reach 
the desired end. Hence it is useless to make open declaration 
of all of your aims and intentions to the unbelieving world, as 
long as your own conscience is free from condemnation, and your 
whole being means to live and strive to obtain and perform the 
right in all things. 

If you should step across the bounds of right, it will not be 
you, but the pleasure of God working in your members to use 
you an instrument to measure to some wicked one his just due. 
Well, then, some wicked one may ask, " Why, if a thing is true and 
good, do you keep it concealed from the world ? " The following 
standards God has raised up to support you : " But when thou 
doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand 



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doest."" '' Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither 
cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under 
their feet, and turn again and rend you. " 

Why is it that some people, in order to be redeemed from the 
pollutions of the world, are required and compelled to make a 
spiritual and material sacrifice of this world's goods which they 
claim as their own, while another can retain his belongings and 
still make a holy sacrifice which would be acceptable to the 
Divine Spirit ? The man who has to give this world's goods over 
to utter destruction is compelled to do so because the things 
of this world are his god, which is idolized in his heart, and his 
whole being is corrupted thereby. And for this reason, in order 
to inherit immortality and be redeemed from the terrible venoms 
of sin, his vain gods that are no gods must be dethroned, and 
his idols entirely destroyed ; while the man who does not think 
more highly than he should of this world's goods is not affected 
very deeply by the pollutions of the world, and in the meantime, 
his worldly goods are not destroyed, but given over to an 
increase. 

Well, how shall the different characters be distinguished one 
from another, since both claim to have the same love and taste 
for the pure life of Christ ? The following standards are re- 
vealed to distinguish the false from the true : " I am come a 
light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not 
abide in darkness." ''And if any man hear my words and believe 
not, I judge him not : for I came not to judge the world, but 
to save the world." ''He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not 
my words, the words that I have spoken, the same shall judge 
him in the last day." 

Again it is written, to substantiate the eternal truth : " When 
he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteous- 
ness, and of judgment : of sin, because they believe not on me ; 



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of righteousness, because I go to my father, and ye see me no 
more ; of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged." 
I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot hear 
them now. Howbeit, when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he 
will guide you into all truth ; for he shall not speak of himself, 
but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak, and he will 
show you things to come. He shall glorify me ; for he shall 
receive of mine, and shall show it unto you. 



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